DBT’s e-Library Consortium (DeLCON) :
A National Consortium of Biotechnology by
Department of Biotechnology (DBT),
Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India
D.D.Lal
(DeLCON Coordinator)
DBT’s Electronic Library Consortium (DeLCON)
NBRC, NH-08, Manesar, Gurgaon, Haryana. India
Email : ddlal@nbrc.ac.in; ddlal.delcon@nic.in;
Website : http://delcon.gov.in
Introduction
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT),
Ministry of Science and Technology,
Government of India launched its e-Library
Consortium in January 2009. The
consortium commenced with 10 DBT core
research institutions including DBT (HQ) and
ICGEB, New Delhi.
Introduction (.. Contd....)
 Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of
India has currently fourteen (14) research institutions
under its fold. All these institutions have separate
libraries to cater to the information, both hard copy and
electronic, needs of their researchers.
 In order to provide information input for research,
these libraries have been subscribing to a large number
of e-journals and other resources.
 Separate subscription by each institute amounted to a
vast amount of expenditure and there were many
avoidable duplication of resources.
Purpose of the Consortium
Approach in DBT Institutions
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Information explosion
Diversity of user needs
Financial crunch
Impossibility of self-sufficiency
NEED of the DeLCON CONSORTIUM
1. Most of DBT Institutions Libraries were
facing problems of Shrinking of Budget
2. Ever-Growing Users Requirements
3. Escalation of cost of Journals and Books
4. Unprecedented technological advancement
especially in the field of information
storage and retrieval
DeLCON Consortium
 The DBT's eLectronic Library CONsortium
called as "DeLCON".
 The ‘DBT e-Library Consortium’ (DeLCON)
has now covered 917 online resources with
20 International Publishers.
 Now the existing members of the ‘DeLCON
Consortium’ are 33 Institutions.
Formulation Covered Under DeLCON Consortia
Funding
Licensing
Issues
Negotiation &
Subscriptions
Identification
Infrastructures Needs
DeLCON
Formulation
Programs
Cost
Effectiveness
Sharing
Resources,
Risk / Success
Payment
Issues
Practical
Service
Staffing
Access
Controls
Quality
Improvement
DeLCON
Features and
Access
Facilities
1. Save physical storage space / Save Cost
2. Users don’t need to visit Library
3. No lost or Damage of Titles
4. Can Provide Adjustable Fonts etc. for Disabled Users
5. Instant Delivery of Purchased Items / Instant
availability of Items
6. Can be used to provide access to out of print materials
7. Allows Access Over LAN (IP Based) throughout in
Campus
9. IP based in Institution / Full Access without
password
10. Can be used simultaneously by more than one user
11. Provide Round the Clock access Online (24X7X365
Formula)
12. Supports different searching capabilities
13. Accommodate unique features (e.g. Link to related
items, reference linking)
14. Can support multimedia information
15. Inter Library Loan (ILL) Facilities for Research
Works
16. Environment Friendly
17. Provide timely access
18. Automatically generate alerting and other secondary
services
19. Do not required physical processing
20. Speed of publication and quick delivery than the print
21. Search / Advance Search / Key Word Search / Full
Text (.pdf) Downloadable
22. Searching, Downloading & Printing relevant materials
by end users
23.Browse / Archive Back Volumes from Vol. 1
Issues 1 or from 1995
DeLCON Consortium - 2009
DELCON
CONSORITUM
(2009)
10 DBT Inst.
(8 DBT Inst.+
DBT H.Q. +
ICGEB)
899 Online
Resources
16 Publishers
DeLCON Consortium - 2010
DeLCON
Extended
New Phase-II
(2010)
Added
15 NER +
BIRAP +WT)
Added 18
New Online
Resources
Added 4 New
Publishers
27 DBT Memb.
917 Online
Resources
20 Publishers
DeLCON Consortium - 2011
DeLCON
Extended
New Phase-III
(2011)
Added
3 NER Inst.+
4 DBT Inst)
NO
New
Resources
NO New
Publishers
33 DBT Memb.
917 Online
Resources
20 Publishers
DeLCON Consortium - 2012
DeLCON
Consortium
(2012)
DeLCON Consortium - 2013
DeLCON
Consortium
(2013)
DeLCON
MEMEBERS
Phase-Wise
DeLCON Phase – I Members = 10 (In 2009)
1. National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), Manesar
2. Department of Biotechnology, (DBT), New Delhi
3. National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi
4. National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi
5. National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune, Maharashtra
6. Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Bhubaneswar
7. Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (IBSD),
Imphal, Manipur
8. Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad
9. Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Thiruvananthapuram
10. International Centre for Genome Engineering and Biotechnology
(ICGEB), New Delhi
DeLCON Phase-II Members = 16 (Added in 2010)
1.
Assam University, Silchar, Assam
2.
College of Veterinary Science, Assam Agricultural University, Khanapara, Guwahati
3.
College of Veterinary Sci. & A.H. Central Agricultural University, Aizawl, Mizoram
4.
D. M. College of Science, Imphal, Manipur
5.
Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh
6.
Guwahati University, Guwahati
7.
Manipur University, Imphal
8.
Mizoram University, Mizoram
9.
Nagaland University, Kohima, Nagaland
10. North Eastern Hill University, Shillong
11. North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology, Arunachal Pradesh
12. North East Institute of Science & Technology, Jorhat, Assam
13. Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh
14. Sikkim University, Gagtok
15. St. Anthony’s College, Shillong, Meghalaya
16. Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Program (BIRAP), New Delhi
DeLCON Phase-III Members = 07 (Added in 2011)
1. National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali, Punjab.
2. Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB), Gurgaon.
3. Translational Health Science & Technology Institute (THSTI),
Gurgaon
4. National
Institute
of
Biomedical
Genomics
(NABMG),
Kalyani,
Kolkata.
(NER-Institution)
1. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati.
2. Tezpur University, (TU) Assam.
3. Sikkim State Council of Science & Technology (SSCST), Sikkim.
DeLCON Members = 33 (All Merged in 2012)
1. DeLCON Merged all the Phases in the Year 2012.
(2013)
1. Replaced Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Programme
(BIRAP)’
with
National
Institute
of
Animal
Biotechnology,
Hyderabad
2. National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB), Hyderabad is a
New DBT Institution recently established at Hyderabad.
DeLCON
eReSources
DeLCON CONSORTIUM COVERED 917 e-Journals
1
Am. Assoc. for Advancement of Science
http://www.sciencemag.org
(3 Journal)
2
Am. Association for Cancer Research
http://www.aacr.org
(8 Journals)
3
American Chemical Society (ACS)
http://pubs.acs.org
(37 Journals
4
Annual Reviews
http://www.annualreviews.org
(23 Journals)
5
Am. Soc. for Biochem. & Molecular Biology http:///www.jbc.org
6
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
http://www.cshl.edu
(4 Journals)
7
Informa Healthcare / Taylor and Francis
http://www.informaworld.com
(7 Journals)
8
Lippincott (LWW)/Wolter & Kluwer/ OVID
http://ovidsp.ovid.com
(11 Journals)
9
Marry ANN Liebert
http://www.liebertonline.com
(7 Journals)
10
Nature Publications
http://www.nature.com
(40 Journals)
11
Oxford University Press (OUP)
http://www.oxfordjournals.org
(18 Journals)
12
Springer India
http://www.springerlink.com
(237 Journals)
13
Society for General Microbiology
http://mic.sgmjournals.org
(3 Journals)
14
Society for Hematology
http://bloodjournals.hematologylibrary.org
(1 Journal)
15
Wiley-Blackwell
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/home
(86 Journals)
16
Elsevier Science (ScienceDirect)
http://www.sciencedirect.com
(415 Journals)
17
Am. Society for Microbiology (ASM)
http://www.asm.org
(11 Journals)
18
Am. Association of Immunology (AAI)
http://www.aai.org
(01 Journal)
19
Am. Association for Plant Biologist
http://www.aspb.org
(02 Journals)
20
SCOPUS Database
http://www.scopus.com
(1 Database)
(2 Journal)
Elsevier Science
MAL
ANNUAL REVIEWS
Nature
OVID
ASH-BLOOD
ASM
ASBMB
CSHL PRESS
OUP
ASPB
INFORMA HC
ACS, 37
AAI, 1
Wiley-Blackwell, 86
Springer, 237
MAL, 7
OVID, 11
ASBMB, 1
ASPB, 1
AAAS-SCIENCE, 1
OUP , 18
SCOPUS, 1
SGM, 3
INFORMA HC, 7
CSHL PRESS, 4
ASH-BLOOD, 1
ANNUAL REVIEWS, 23
AACR, 6
ASM, 12
Nature, 38
Elsevier Science, 415
Covered Journals Under DeLCON
CONSORTIUM
Wiley-Blackwell
AAAS-SCIENCE
SGM
Springer
AACR
SCOPUS
ACS
AAI
PRINT JOURNALS & PRINT SUBSCRIPTION
1. No Print Journals Under ‘DeLCON Consortium’
2. Stopped Print Journals by DBT Institutions, So, avoided Duplication
and saved Money
3. Maintaining Print is not compulsory for DeLCON or Member
4. Freedom to DeLCON Members (DBT Institutions) to go for print
(Individually) on Deep Discount Pricing, if they want, separately
from DeLCON
5. Adjustment (or refund) of Paid subscription by DBT Institution
were taken care by DeLCON during the subscription in the year
2009.
FREE TRIALS
1. Minimum Three to Six (3-6) Months Free
Trials Were Compulsory for all the Publishers
2. All DBT Institutions (Phase-I, Phase-II &
Phase-III) experienced at least 3 months Free
Trials Access for each of Journals, which were
covered under DeLCON.
New Journals Added 2013
New Journals Added
1. New England Journal of
Medicine
1. PNAS
BACK VOLUMES & PERPETUAL ACCESS
1. Back Volumes Access from Vol. 1 / Issues 1 by
Society Publishers
2. Back Volumes Access from 1995 onwards by
Commercial Publishers (Without any additional cost)
1. Most of Society Publishers provided perpetual access
form the Vol.1/Issues 1
2. Commercial Publishers Given Perpetual Access for
Subscribed Years
PAYMENT ISSUES
1. Payment in ‘Foreign Currency’ to ‘Foreign
Publishers’ or actual publisher only.
2. Credit Periods for Payment  180 days
3. No Late Fees & Interest on late payment
4. All the payment via Wire Transfer / Bank
Transfer directly to original / actual
foreign publisher
OTHER ISSUES
 One Remote Username and Password
(Off Campus Access) for Each of
Member for travelling Scientists
 Administrative Password to Consortium
Manager
 Possibilities to exchange (close /
replace) Journals which are not useful.
Criteria for Selection of ‘DeLCON Journals’
1. Selections based on usage / suitability of e-resources to
DBT Institutions.
2. Nodal Officer’s Feedback & Requests
3. Minimum Recommendations of 3-5 DBT Institutions
4. Recommendations of DeLCON Expert Committee
5. Based on Funds Availability.
6. Terms and Conditions should be suitable with Publishers
7. Perpetual Access & Back Volumes access
8. Publishers Discount offer and Negotiation.
PRISING MODEL
The ‘DeLCON Consortium’ not prefer
to go as ‘FTE’ Model.
Subject Coverage
Under DeLCON
Consortium
SUBJECT COVERAGE UNDER DeLCON
LIFE SCIENCES
13. MATHEMATICS
1.
14. PHYSICS
BIOTECHNOLOGY,
2. BIOINFORMATICS
15. CHEMISTRY
3. BIOCHEMISTRY
16. RADIOLOGY
4. BIOLOGY/ CHEMICAL BIOLOGY 17. MEDICINES
5. IMMUNOLOGY
18. COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
6. NEUROSCIENCE
19. CELL BIOLOGY & CELL SC.
7. PLANT GENOME
20. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
8. PLANT BIOLOGY
21. MOLECULAR & CELLULAR
9. MICROBIOLOGY
BIOLOGY
10. PHYSIOLOGY / PSYCHOLOGY
22. VETERINARY SCIENCES
11. PHYSIOTHERAPY
23. COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSC.
12. GENOME / GENE / GENETICS
24. SYSTEM NEUROSCIENCE
Budgets, Funds &
Management
The Department of Biotechnology
(DBT), Govt. of India, is funding &
Monitoring to ‘DeLCON Consortium’.
DeLCON Monitoring &
Committees
1. National DeLCON Steering Cum Negotiation
Committee
2. National DeLCON Sub-Committee
3. National DeLCON Monitoring Committee
4. National DeLCON Review Committee
PROGRESS &
DEVELOPMENT OF
DELCON
CONSORTIUM :: –>
‘MILESTONE OF
DeLCON Consortium’
‘DELCON
CONSORTIUM’
4 Years Journey
(2009-2012)’
DeLCON Covered
899 Online Journals in the
Year 2009 &
in the Year 2010 added
18 New e-Resources &
Now, the total
Covered DeLCON Journals
are 917.
Included 17 Members in ‘DeLCON’
(Including 15 NER Institutions,
Wellcome Trust - Hyderabad &
BIRAP-New Delhi (in the Yr 2010).
Further, added 7 Institutions
(4 DBT Institutions & 3 NER –
Institutions) in the year 2011.
Merged all Phases in the
Year 2012
RECENT
UPDATION
UNDER
‘DELCON
CONSORTIUM’
NEW UPDATES under
‘DeLCON Consortium’
1. DeLCON Consortium Completed 4 Years
(2009-2012) successfully.
2. All the Phases of DeLCON (such as Ph.I,
Ph.II & Ph.III) are now merged as a Single
‘DeLCON Consortium’ from 2012.
3. DBT has re-constituted the ‘DeLCON
National Steering-cum-Negotiation
Committee’ in 2012.
Recent ‘DeLCON National Steering-cum-Negotiation
Committee’ Members
1. Prof. B. Ravindran, Chairperson DeLCON & Director ILS, Bhubaneswar
2. Prof. Subrata Sinha, (Director, NBRC), Manesar
3.
Dr. T. Madhan Mohan, (Adviser, DBT), New Delhi
4.
Smt. Anuradha Mitra, (JS&FA, DBT), New Delhi
5.
All the Directors of DBT Institution or their representatives
6. Dr. Jagdish Arora, (Director, INFLIBNET), Ahmedabad
7. Dr. R. R. Hirwani, (Director, CSIR-URDIP), Pune
8. Dr. Summan Mallik, (Dy. Director), CDRI, Lucknow
9.
Sh. Sanjay Goel, (Director, IFD, DBT), New Delhi
10. Dr. Probodh Borah, (Scientist, CVS-AAU), Guwahati, Assam
11. Dr. S. Sureshkumar Singh, (Scientist,NERIST), Arunachal Pradesh
12. Dr. Gulshan Wadhwa, (PSO, DBT), New Delhi
13. Sh. Vinod Kumar, (Dy. Manager, BCIL), New Delhi
14. D. D. Lal, (NBRC), Manesar
DBT’s E-LIBRARY CONSORTIUM (DeLCON) Website Was
Initially hosted at NBRC Website: http://www.nbrc.ac.in/delcon/
Further DeLCON Website Developed by INFFLIBNET
and the existing Website : http://delcon.gov.in/
DeLCON Consortium Management
1. Presently, under DeLCON Consortium, 33 Institutions,
20 Publishers, 917 online resources are Involved.
2. NBRC is Managing ‘DeLCON Consortium’ since Year
2009
3. DeLCON Website Management
4. Payment & Funds Management
5. Usage Statistics Management
6. IP Update Management
7. Password Management
Future Plan
of DeLCON
Consortium
Future Plan of DeLCON 2013..
 Now extended the DeLCON Consortium
for next 3 years (2013-2015)
 Separate Funds Arrangements /
Allocation for DeLCON
 No deduction of any funds from any of
the Institutional Budgets
 Now, DeLCON Consortium will function as
a Programme Mode (DeLCON Cell)
Future Plan of DeLCON 2013..
 Addition / deletion of e-resources
those are not useful
 Additional Funds Arrangement for New
resources
 More Training Programme / Seminar /
Conference / Workshop to promote use
of DeLCON e-Resources
 Additional Manpower for DeLCON
Future Plan of DeLCON 2013..
 Regular Quarterly meeting with Nodal
Officers to resolve their queries /
feedback & interactions with Nodal
Officers
 Setup of Video Conferencing to resolve
the issues / Problems of Members
 Institutional demands / needs
 Signing of MOU / MOA Among the
DeLCON Members
Future Plan of DeLCON 2013..
 Signing of multiples years (3 years)
License Agreement with publishers
 Development of Federated Search
Engines
 Cross Sharing of Institutional
Resources basis on Interlibrary Library
Loan
INSTITUTIONS
Very much
INTERESTED
to be a part of
‘DeLCON’
52
REQUEST
RECEIVED IN
‘2010-2011’
53
SANT GADGE BABA AMRAVATI
UNIVERSITY, AMRAVATI, MAHARSTRA
Website: http://www.sgbau.ac.in/
54
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi
Website : http://www.sgrh.com
55
Amrita School of Biotechnology, Kollam, Kerala
Website: http://www.amrita.edu
56
Lady Doak College, Madurai, Tamilnadu
Website: http://www.ladydoak.org
57
PUNJAB UNIVERSITY CHANDIGARH
Website: http://www.puchd.ac.in/
58
Central Coir Research Institute, Alappuzha,
Kerala
Website: http://www.ccriindia.org
59
BIRLA Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi,
Jharkhand
http://www.bitmesra.ac.in
60
Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram
Website: http://www.rcctvm.org
61
Barwale Knowledge and Study Centre, Jalna,
Maharastra
Website: http://www.barwalefoundation.org/html
62
Jaypee University of Information Technology,
Solan, Himachal Pradesh
Website: http://www.juit.ac.in/
63
REQUEST
RECEIVED IN
‘2012’
The Maharaja Sayajirao University
of Baroda, Gujarat
Website: http://www.msubaroda.ac.in/
Tea Research Association,
Jorhat Assam
Website: http://jorhat.nic.in/ttc.htm
66
National Institute of Technology, Calicut
Website: http://www.nitc.ac.in/
67
Central University of Gujarat
Website: http://www.cug.ac.in/
68
NIRMA UNIVERSITY, Gujarat
Website: http://www.nirmauni.ac.in/
69
National Institute of Pharmaceutical
Education and Research, SAS Nagar, Mohali
Website: http://www.niper.gov.in/
Tripura University, Tripura
http://www.tripurauniv.in/
Pune University, Pune
http://www.unipune.ac.in/
Pondicherry University, Pondicherry
http://www.pondiuni.edu.in/
Advance Centre for Treatment Research & Education
in Cancer (Tata Memorial Hospital), Mumbai
http://tmc.gov.in/
South Asian University, New Delhi
http://www.southasianuniversity.org/
REQUEST
RECEIVED IN
‘2013’
National Institute of Health and Family Welfare,
New Delhi
http://www.nihfw.org/
Bioinformatics Centre, Biotech Park, Lucknow
http://www.biotechpark.org.in/index1.htm
Rangia College, Assam
http://www.rangiacollege.org/
Conclusions
 The ‘DeLCON Consortium’ is resources-sharing Organization formed
by DBT.
 The DBT e-Library Consortium is an association established by
formal agreement, usually for the purpose of improving services
through resource sharing among its members.
 The DeLCON Consortium is at the doorsteps to prove the library
cooperation locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.
 The DeLCON Consortium with its collective strength of participating
Institutions, has attracted highly discounted rates of subscription
with most favourable terms of agreement.
 The DeLCON Consortium exploiting the features of the e-journals as
well as in effecting savings.
HOW TO ACCESS
‘DeLCON CONSORTIUM’
WEBSITE
http://delcon.gov.in
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